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”there has been a dire shortage of trained air traffic controllers for years”

“the FAA director resigned on inauguration day because Elon Musk demanded he quit”

“trump’s hiring freeze means no new air traffic controllers are being hired”

“Musk’s ‘resign or get fired’ email went to every ATC too”

First deadly commercial air crash in the US since 2009 occurs

“It’s because of DEI!”

holy shit fuck off

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spin this list of all of the pokemon. you are now that pokemon.

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American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus)

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If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.

One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen and comes closest to Shobana's original performance in Manichitrathazhu. Incredible!

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it's so hard to gaf about anyone romantically. truly what if you get home from work tired and there's someone inside your house. i feel like id get mad sometimes and it'd not be their fault. anyways im going to start a new book

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A man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I don’t have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.

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remember when teachers would tell you to fold paper hamburger or hotdog style. kind of sounds like some fake shit but just another example of burger centric american thinking

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@oscarwildewienermobile

Elementary skills.

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So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

Source

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"But NORMAL People's Bodies Didn't Look Like That!" ...right?

Some of you may have seen my post about Baroque artists and their realistic depictions of human bodies as having skin and fat.

I've had a lot of negative and frankly fatphobic comments on that post, calling the people in the paintings "fat" and "obese," mostly along the lines of this:

"It's because the artists are depicting rich people, who were fat and lazy. Normal people didn't look like that!"

The idea, of course, is that these artists wouldn't have ever drawn bodies that looked like those in the Baroque paintings, if they weren't painting super-rich people that stuffed themselves with food all day.

Supposedly. We'll see how well that holds up.

Today I was in the library looking at a collection of drawings by Albrecht Dürer, and learned that in the early 1500's, Dürer tried to put together essentially a "how-to-draw" book, showing how to draw people. His work was controversial, because of his technique of "constructing" figures using rules about proportions. (A quick and easy method of inventing realistically proportioned bodies out of thin air? Cheating!!)

However, in his "constructed" drawings, Dürer had to figure out how to handle the range of variety in bodies, and ended up breaking down how to create a variety of body types in correct proportions.

I'm showing the women, to contrast with the post on Baroque paintings. Here are some of his drawings that I thought y'all should take a look at.

These are a couple of his more "average" women—the one on the left is from his drawing book, and the one on the right is one of his drawings.

Here's a "strong woman" and "A very strong, stout woman"

This is what he refers to as a "stout woman."

Here's where it gets interesting: this is what Albrecht Dürer refers to as a "peasant-type" woman

^That. That's what a "peasant" body type looks like.

He labeled this one "A peasant woman of 7 head lengths"

in case you missed it: this figure drawing by a guy in the 1500's is literally labeled as being of a peasant woman! this is what a "peasant woman" body type looks like!

He did draw similar amounts of thinner figures, but they're not particularly emphasized over the "Strong" and "Stout" figures. Nor is there exactly a "default" figure. He's just...going over the range of variations that there are?

Here's another "stout woman," covered in notes on how to draw the proportions:

now that's too technical for me to make any sense of but

this was in the 16th century!! This body type was apparently not incredibly rare in the 16th century. This body type was important enough for you to be able to draw, as an artist, in the 16th century to be handled in detail in a 16th century artist's drawing advice

In conclusion: yes this is just what people look like, yes it's important to know how to draw fat bodies, even this dude from the early 1500's is telling you so, Die Mad About It

all of this is from "The complete drawings of Albrecht Dürer" by Walter L. Strauss

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original reddit post

AusPATH post (guidelines on how/what to submit)

MSAC application (submissions close 14th February, 2025)

if you're trans and Australian, please make a submission - the more the better

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this is so far beyond the point of the article that i didnt wanna say it in the tags but in the story about the trans women running a surgery clinic from their barn, there's a line about how it was easier to "pass" in rural areas in the early aughts because rural women aren't expected to meet the same standards of femininity as city women, and i just. YEAH.

i actually didn't know that "short hair, no makeup, wears flannel" was a butch dyke stereotype until WELL into my late teens, simply because that described about 80% of the middle-aged women With Husbands i knew.

it's been making me fucking crazy to watch the obsession with "clockability" rise because the divide between cis women and trans women is so small as to be nonexistent. i'm fucking flabbergasted watching men who wouldn't have blinked twice at a pair of trans women in 2005 now, in 2025, being like "better watch for jaw scruff and a bump in the throat and a deep voice and and and--"

because like. THAT IS THE CIS WOMEN AROUND YOU. THAT IS YOUR CIS WIFE?? THAT IS YOUR CIS MOM AND COWORKER AND SISTER AND DAUGHTER.... women just fucking look like that!! cis or trans!! oh my god!!

trans women are by far in the most danger from this rise in rhetoric, it fucking Guts Me to think about those same neighbors in 2025 being a lot Less Chill bc of whatever nonsense they've heard on fox news. but good god, it's fucking. it drives me insane. The Sex Binary Does Not Exist. Stop .

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Studies of Odo from Deep Space Nine, referenced from season 3 episode 6.

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shes all i need all my life i feel so good if i jus say tha wordohhhghhhhhh sussusuuuudio lalalala 😆

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I brought Quark and Odo on a flight but forgot about them until after I'd landed oops.

Anyway here's them fighting over the controls

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Shout out to the best father-son relationship ever shownd on the screen

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